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HOUSE   OF    RP:PRESENTAT1VES,  Feb.  16,  1805.— Laid  on 
the  table  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Gholson.]  WfHDRAWN 


RESOLUTIONS 

(he  Court- 


Adopted  b\j  a  Meeting  of  the  People  of  Powhatan,  held  in 
house  on  February   Court  Daij,   I860. 


At  a  larire  meeting  of  the  people  of  Powhatan,  held  in  the  court- 
house on  February  court  day,  Charles  Carter  Lee,  Esq.  was  called 
to  the  thair,  and 'Win.  Pope  Dabney  was  elected  secretary.  The 
chairman  explained,  in  an  eloquent  manner,  the  object  of  the  meet- 
iiiiT,  and  appointed  R.  Ivanhoe  Cocke,  Dr.  J.  B.  Harvie,  Col.  Wm.  C. 
Sc^nt,  E.  F.  Baugh  and  Wm.  Pope  Dabney  a  committee  to  prepare 
resolutions  expressive  of  the  sense  of  the  meeting. 

While  the  committee  had  retired  for- this  purpose.  Revs.  J.  D. 
Powell  and  William  A.  Campbell  were  called  on,  and  addressed  the 
ni<M'tin<r. 

The  committee  having  returned,  the  secretary  read  the  resolutions 

as  follows: 

We,  tlie  people  of  Powhjitan,  having  heard  the  result  of  the  ctlbi  ts 
recently  made  by  three  of  our  distinguished  citizens  for  peace,  and 
seeinsr  that  our  enemies  will  accept  of  no  terms  of  settlement  short 
of  unconditional  submission  to  fanaticism  and  tyranny: 

Resolved,  that  we  pledge  to  our  government  and  to  our  fellow- 
citizens  of  the  Confederate  States  our  undivided  efforts  to  resist  the 
yoke  which  the  government  of  the  United  States  seeks  to  impose 
u[)on  us. 

Resolved,  that  we  tender  to  our  army  our  sincerest  tlianks  for  their 
uallantry  in  the  field,  and  for  the  noble  spirit  they  have  shown  in 
their  resolutions  recently  passed. 

Resolved,  that  we  pledge  "our  lives,  our  fortunes  and  our  Sacred 
honors"  for  the  prosecution  of  the  war  to  a  completion  consistent 
with  our  honor  and  independence. 

Resolved,  that  our  soldiers  tiom  our  couniy  shall  be  assured  that 
in  their  absence  their  families  shall  be  amply  provided  for. 

Resolved,  that  the  secretary  forward  these  resolutions  to  Hon.  T. 
S.  Gholson,  our  representative  in  Congress,  and  to  Messrs.  Kash  and 
Irving,  our  members  in  the  Legislature  of  Virginia,  and  to  the  Rich- 
mon(l  jtapers  for  publication. 

Pending  these  resolutions,  Col.  Wm.  C.  Scott  and  R.  Ivanhoe  Cocke 
addressed  the  meeting  in  favor  of  their  adoption,  and  being  put  to 
the  vote  by  the  chairman,  they  were  unanimously  adopted. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

CHAS.  CARTER  LEE,  President. 
WM.  POPE  DABNEY,  Secretary. 


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